Here you will be provided with tools to create and develop a personal practice in direct contact with nature. We believe that this contact facilitates a deeper state of knowing and creates a positive bond with what is observed, leading to a natural tendency to take care of what we meet in nature.  Throughout these six introductory encounters you will experience the drawing of observation associated with mindful deep and slow breathing, following a framework inspired in Goethe’s practice of Delicate Empiricism.

How did we adapt this approach?

We use the observational drawing to create the experience of being in contact with nature, following the directives of delicate empiricism applied to botanical studies, adapted to a 45 min practice.

You will need paper and pencil, preferably a soft one. You would also benefit from being comfortable and undisturbed for 30 consecutive minutes next to the plant that you have chosen to draw. We will talk about the carbon cycle and the exchanges of CO₂ and O₂ between the atmosphere and the living beings in our planet. With this in mind, it is interesting to choose a plant that is alive.  It can be potted, in a garden or just out on your windowsill, as long as you can see it as a whole and also be able to be near it to check the details.  The practice will bring you an immediate sense of wellbeing. You will have created a starting point of calm, security, and healthy curiosity from which the information you have assimilated through your senses can be embodied.

Lesson 1 – Choosing frontiers

Lesson 2 – Drawing details

Lesson 3 – Exploring signs of time

Lesson 4 – Meeting the whole

Lesson 5 – Building a personal practice

Lesson 6 – What has changed

Individual lessons on line live last 45 minutes each